On January 8th and 9th five Monroe County 4-H youth participated in the National Virtual Livestock Quiz Bowl Competition and the National Virtual Livestock Judging Competition hosted by Utah State University. The first competition was the virtual livestock quiz bowl competition on held on January 8th. Lauren Ballard, Emma Ballard, and Shane Arthur filled three of the four seats on the Green team representing West Virginia, while A.J. Chernauskas, and Caden Glover, made up half of the white team. Three other 4-Hers from around the state comprised the remainder of the two teams. Fifteen teams from ten states entered the competition for this new approach in delivering these types of educational events in a covid world. Although WV didn’t win we had a great two months in preparing for the event. Participants learned an eminence amount of material related to livestock production such as, animal health, nutrition, reproduction, meat quality, breed identification, and many other topics.
In the livestock judging competition Lauren and Emma Ballard made up half of the WV Livestock Judging Team. Both Lauren and Emma had participated in livestock judging competitions in the past and have been very successful both in WV and regionally. This was the first National competition that they had participated in and they fared very well. The competition comprised of ten classes of livestock that were placed and six sets of oral reasons, where they explained their placing in a one to two minute oral presentation. There were sixteen teams and sixty seven youth from across the U.S. competing, and our WV team placed fifth. Individually, Lauren placed twelfth overall and was second in placings being edged out by one point from a participant from Georgia with a score of 465 out of 500 possible. Emma did an outstanding job as well by placing 15th overall in reasons. Congratulations to our Monroe County 4-Hers who represented WV well in this National competition!! Comments are closed.
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